<>Adobe^® Flash CS3 Professional

FOR THOSE WHO WOULD RATHER BE SHOWN HOW THAN TOLD HOW

SEE HOW TO

• Improve publishing and productivity with the CS3 interface and templates

• Browse, organize, and process files using Adobe Bridge and Version Cue

• Import Photoshop and Illustrator files directly into Flash

• Keep track of the changes in Flash on a per-object basis

• Copy and paste graphic filters and motions

• Create more compelling designs with built-in filter effects and gradients

• Use blend modes to change the way the image of one object on the Stage is combined with other images

• Preview changes to 9-slice scaled movie clips on Stage

• Simplify common timeline and scripting tasks with Timeline Effects and Behaviors

• Use Script Assisted mode to create scripts without detailed knowledge of ActionScript

• Test content on different target devices using Adobe Device Central

On the Web

This book uses real world examples to give you a context in which to perform a task. This book also includes workshops to help you put together individual tasks into projects. The Flash example files that you need for project tasks are available at www.perspection.com.

Perspection has written and produced books on a variety of computer software, including Adobe Flash 8, Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS2, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Microsoft Office 2007 and 2003, Microsoft Windows Vista and XP, Microsoft Expression Web, and Apple Mac OS X Panther. Perspection was founded in 1991, and is committed to providing information and training to help people use software more effectively. Perspection has written more than 80 computer books, and sold more than 5 million copies.

      Introduction      

1          Getting Started with Flash CS3         

2          Working Within the Flash Environment       

3          Creating Graphics     

4          Working with Groups, Symbols, and Instances        

5          Working with Text    

6          Importing Graphics   

7          Creating Frame_By_Frame Animation         

8          Animating with Motion Tweening     

9          Animating with Shape Tweening       

10        Creating Masks         

11        Working with Sounds

12        Working with Video   

13        Applying Timeline Effects    

14        Using ActionScript Behaviors           

15        Using Basic ActionScripts     

16        Debugging a Movie   

17        Adding Display Components 

18        Adding Advanced Display Components       

19        Adding and Modifying Data Components     

20        Automating Your Work         

21        Publishing a Movie    

22        Using Advanced Flash Features      

23        Working Together with Adobe Programs   

            Workshops: Putting It All Together 

            New Features   

            Adobe Certified Expert  

          Index

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 14 Ratings

OK as a reference, but not a tutorial - 2009-09-04
Reviewer Rating:
If you are looking for a resource to help you learn Flash, keep looking. It is purely a reference book. While it seems fairly thorough, I frankly don't see that there is a lot more here than can be found in Adobe's help system. The reading is dry and mundane details of simple window operation are dragged before your eyes. Minimal examples and the absence of a tutorial structure make learning Flash from this book tough going.

Pretty Cover - 2008-02-19
Reviewer Rating:
This is a good book for an absolute beginner who wants to make simple motion graphics.

I had trouble finding anything in here that wasn't in Flash 5 or MX.

Informative - 2009-09-29
Reviewer Rating:
Reads much better than other textbooks but that could be that Flash is interesting and fun.

The Monkey Butler Ninja Review - 2008-12-01
Reviewer Rating:
[...]

First of all I LOVE how this book is formatted. It says in the very beginning it is a `visual quick reference book' and that is about as accurate as my ninja throwing star ability. It also says in the same paragraph that it covers `basic to advanced Flash skills.' While this book will teach you a few things that would be considered `advanced' Flash is too powerful of a tool to cover baby monkey's to full blown ninja masters.

For fellow monkey's that are considered beyond beginner the first half of this book will be fairly review. You probably will pick up some very helpful hints in the later half and that will be worth the read.

Again I want to praise the layout. Fantastic job! Highly recommend it for people who consider themselves a beginner or lower intermediately skilled.

I rate it: 4 out of 5 ninja stars and a bunch of bananas.

Great menu explanations, missing troubleshooting info - 2008-07-23
Reviewer Rating:
As a web developer, I often have designers come to me with a Flash movie they have recently made. In my experience, sometimes their movie just works on the web, and sometimes it does not. I was hoping to understand why that is from this book.

The chapter on publishing Flash movies is well done. The page layout is nice and easy to read. The majority of the chapter is dedicated to explaining the different publishing options available from the menu. That was great instruction and now I will know some options to look at if I run into problems.

However, I was hoping for more information related to troubleshooting and some examples of common problems when publishing to the web. The designer who brought me the movie knows the design part of using Flash, and I know web programming, but it seems there is missing information in the middle that neither of us know. The designer expects me to know what to do because I'm the 'web guy.'

So, the book was good at explaining menu options, but I will have to look elsewhere for information about troubleshooting web publishing.

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